Natalie Portman Quotes
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I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.
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I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly.
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Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.
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Sometimes people's reactions tell more about themselves.
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I think people who aren't in film experience that when they hear their voice on an answering machine or something.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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I hear, more than ever, people actively searching for women to direct, actively wanting to finance women's films, which is not to say it is easy, but I think it's been a great instance of how journalism has put pressure on business to be more fair between genders.
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If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
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Microcredit is about giving hope.
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As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
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Even Donald Trump presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.
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Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.
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You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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I love stoner comedies. I smoked weed in college, but I haven't smoked in years.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.
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Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest.
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I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.
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I think it's about having a competent president, and I don't really think gender has to do with how Hillary Clinton will lead.
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Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.